Twenty artisans associations, Teje Women and San Juan de Bacpancel, Gualaceo Canton, receive advice and encouragement to work, by the Ecuadorian designer based in London, Maria Cuji, who now dictate them entreayer and a workshop.
The Inter-American Center of Crafts and Folk Art, CIDAP, promoted the meeting to work on new designs of straw shawl, jewelry and textile area.
Maria Cuji began working with straw hat shawl over 10 years ago, but with modern styles that retain the authenticity of the province of Azuay. It describes it: What we try is not to change the tradition of our knitters but to modernize and stylize what they can do.
He explains that the proposal brings the craftswomen of Gualaceo is to implement new concepts and innovation, but especially training. "We will create a dress to investigate fairly, 70 percent, and another 30 percent is creation," he said.
The workshop topics as modernization of colors, its evolution in the world of design, making it possible to create more attractive and accepted in consumer markets products will be addressed.
The first workshop for knitters Gualaceo occurred in 2012, when new models were created hats. Currently exported to England around 200 "fascinators" made with straw shawl, this is a distinctive women of that country frequently used, especially the queens.
"With this product we use the same fiber toquilla but with a finish, softer, delicate and thinner," explains Maria Cuji.
Fausto Ordonez, executive director of CIDAP, the presence of Mary Cuji means an incentive and support for artisans, as the designer, trend and fashion, accompanies them to gain insight into the essence of their work and project them into new opportunities growth and expansion of their productive activities.
macanas
For 16 and 17 September another workshop aimed at women who make traditional Macana, in the sectors of Bullcay and Bullzhun, will provide the same to be called The Road Macana.
This is a product that aims to discover in England. Maria Cuji initially undertaken with an ornament for the head, made from the fabric of the Macana.
"It is a delicate work which they perform, many hours of skills, to be sitting knitting, which must be rescued and can even truncheons be in an online store for a population range is willing to pay for the real value of this product ", emphasized the designer.
The interest of the designer together with the CIDAP, is to train new generations, working with young people to the tradition does not disappear. (BEM) (I)
Source: http://www.eltiempo.com.ec/noticias-cuenca/190499-trabajo-de-artesanas-de-gualaceo-recibe-impulso/
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